NewStations is a collection of various new train stations for the spiritual successors of Transport Tycoon deLuxe (TTD): TTDPatch and OpenTTD. Its stations are usable in all three major TTD climates (temperate, arctic, sub-tropical).
The set implements different kinds of stations: "way points" for better path-finding, passenger stations to allow a more variated approach to the needs of villages and cities, freight stations specific with respect to transported cargo, locomotive sheds for maintenance, and an assortment of non-track tiles to help with stations looking more "realistic".
Version 0.2 implemented way points (class "waypoints") in the form of signal boxes.
Version 0.3 added individually configurable station facilities like platforms, shelters, halls, etc. (class "platforms").
Version 0.4 added 16 small station buildings (class "small stations") which are not special for a particular vehicle set or country but should be usable for quite different scenarios. There will be more distinctive station buildings in the future.
Version 0.5 added support for OpenTTD's "custom" rail type feature, stations using "custom" foundations when being built on slopes, automatic buffers - both for platforms and free track, 4 new station buildings (Solovec, Freiburg, Bamberg, Avetri), new platform types, and mostly all-new graphics for platform tiles.
Version 0.6 adds
The actual version of the NewStations set is 0.6 (grf-ID is 6D 62 06 00) and it's of August 14th, 2014.
The NewStations set is available in a DOS ("newstats.grf") and in a Windows version ("newstatsw.grf"). Just copy the appropriate NewStations .grf file into the "newgrf" directory under your TTD main directory and add the entry "newgrf/newstats.grf" resp. "newgrf/newstatsw.grf" to your "newgrf.cfg" resp. "newgrfw.cfg" file.
You'll need TTDPatch version 2.0.1 alpha 58 (or higher) to run the NewStations set.
Please follow the instructions found at the OpenTTD Wiki. For OpenTTD, the DOS version is recommended.
You'll need OpenTTD version r24905 (or higher) to
run the NewStations set.
Since v0.4, NewStations included a novel feature: tinted glass for station roofs which has been implemented for the modern "glass roofs" station section. The actual glass colour has been set to a green tint. However, in case you don't like the glass colour in conjunction with a special player colour, or you don't like the tinted glass feature at all you may pass a parameter to revert to the original TTD "dirty" glass colour.
For OpenTTD, you can simply set the parameter from the newGRF window.
You'll need to set following variables in your "ttdpatch.cfg" file:
NewStations v0.6 implements way point stations, platforms, small and medium station buildings, a number of special non-track station tiles, as well as freight sheds and depot facilities.
To choose between the different classes ("waypoints", "platforms", "station", ...) use the top pull-down menu in the station building window. To choose between different station types of a class use the lower menu. (TTDPatch)
All available station types are listed in the table below.
Class | Station ID | Type | Year | Number of platforms | Platform length | Cargo animation | remarks
Way points |
WAYP | (waypoints) 0
| Signal-box
| 1920 | 1940 1960 1980 2000 1 - 7
| 1
| no
| non-stop
| 1
| 2
| 3
| Signal-box | (gantry-style) 82
| footpath only1 | Passenger stations |
PLATFORMS | (platforms) 4
| Roofs
| 1920
| 1 - 7
| 1 - 7
| yes
|
| 5
| Platforms
| 2 - 7
| 6
| Benches
| 1 - 7
| 7
| Car park (front)
| 1950
| Cars only on edge, else roofs
| 8
| Car park (back)
| 9
| Flat roofs
| 1960
| 2 - 7
| Underpass for lengths > 3
| 10
| Glass roofs
| 1980
| Underpass for lengths > 3, | tinted glass 11
| Bridge
| 1920
| 1 - 7
| 1
| no
|
| 12
| Hall (small)
| 1 - 4
| 1 - 7
| yes
| 13
| Hall (large)
| 2, 4
| 14
| Underpass
| 2 - 7
| 1
| no
| 15
| Free
| 1 - 7
| 1 - 7
| 16
| Void
| small | SMALL_STATS (small stations) 17
| St. Andrae2
| 2
| 1
| yes (platform tiles)
| 18
| le Brassus
| 19
| Kritzendorf
| 20
| Vacha
| 21
| Whitehorse
| 2
| 22
| Leba
| 23
| Schaan
| 24
| Forbach
| 25
| Stenar
| 1930
| 26
| Sitges
| 27
| Taucha
| 1940
| 28
| Nottingham
| 3
| 29
| Montelusa
| 1950
| 30
| Olten
| 1960
| 2
| 31
| Kufstein
| 1970
| 32
| Buir
| 1980
| 34
| Solovec
| 1920
| 1
| MEDIUM_STATS | (medium stations) 58
| Freiburg (back)
| 1940
| 3
| 59
| Freiburg (front)
| 60
| Bamberg
| 1920
| 5
| yes
| must be built on slopes
| 61
| Bamberg (extension)
| 1 .. 4
| 33
| Avetri
| 1980
| 1
| 3, 5, 7
| tinted glass
| NON_TRACK | (non-track) 35
| automatic buffer stop
| 1920
| 1
| no
|
| 36
| empty platform
| 37
| St. Andrae
| 38
| le Brassus
| 39
| Kritzendorf
| 40
| Vacha
| 41
| Whitehorse
| 2
| 42
| Leba
| 43
| Schaan
| 44
| Forbach
| 45
| Stenar
| 1930
| 46
| Sitges
| 47
| Taucha
| 1940
| 48
| Nottingham
| 3
| 49
| Montelusa
| 1950
| 50
| Olten
| 1960
| 2
| 51
| Kufstein
| 1970
| 52
| Buir
| 1980
| 53
| Solovec
| 1920
| 1
| 54
| Separating track
| 55
| Stairs
| must be built on slope
| 56
| Hall (small)
| 1 .. 4
| 1 .. 7
| yes
|
| 57
| Hall (large)
| 2, 4
| Freight stations |
GENERALFREIGHT |
(general freight) 62
| void with fence
| 1920
| 1 .. 7
| 1 .. 7
| no
| no fence on coast tiles (harbours)
| 63
| automatic buffer stop with fence
| 1
| PIECEGOODS |
(piece goods) 64
| small sheds
| 2 .. 4 |
1 .. 7 |
yes
|
| 65
| agricultural trade
| 2 |
1 .. 2 |
66
| half-timbered sheds
| 2 .. 7 |
1 .. 7 |
PBS aware |
67
| goods sheds
| 1 .. 7 |
no
| 68
| modern goods sheds
| 69
| modern freight sheds
| depending on configuration
| modern warehouses
| 1950
| 1 .. 3 |
yes
| entrance doors aware of track connection
| modern warehouses
| 2 .. 4 |
cold storages
| 1960
| 1 .. 3 |
cold storages
| 2 .. 4 |
DEPOT |
(depot) 79
| engine sheds
| 1920
| 1 .. 7 |
no
| 80
| roundhouse (vertical)
| 3, 5 |
3 |
yes
| may be electrified | 81
| roundhouse (horizontal)
| |
The NewStations set allows composing railway stations from pre-defined building blocks (objects) of the same or even different classes.
While way points are used in a single-building layout, passenger stations are intended to be composed in a mostly free form from the available building "sections" to make the overall stations look more variated. To allow this in a most flexible way, this set provides mechanisms for automatic adjustment of station sections, i.e. you won't always exactly get what you're putting together (!).
The "platforms" class introduced in v0.3, containing various non-station building objects like generic platforms, over- and underpasses, shelter, car parks, halls, etc. is intended to be used for passenger stations.
Most of its objects of this class are animated and provide a mechanism for automatic adjustment with regard to neighbour objects depending on the overall layout of the station.
Cargo animation is done on a per-tile basis. However, the total size of the station is considered as well to get a balance between the total amount of cargo available at the station and the number of cargo (passengers) shown for different sized stations. This could result in loosing cargo animation when building a station from too many un-animated tiles, or for large stations with small cargo amounts.
It is strongly recommended to built up stations with smaller building blocks using whichever objects fit best. This will increase realism: It's better to have many different objects making up a station than to use the same element for all of its tracks.
In addition, since TTDPatch alpha 47, it was possible to "overbuild" parts of stations. This is a very useful feature, but take care not to destroy parts of your existing stations which are composed by multiple tiles, i.e. halls, under- and overpasses or double-tile platforms.
Please note that you cannot built car parks on slopes where no street access is available.
V0.6 (Aug 14th, 2014)
V0.51 (Dec 21th, 2012)
V0.5 (Dec 12th, 2012)
V0.44 (Dec 27th, 2005)
V0.43 (Dec 23th, 2005)
V0.42 (Sep 5th, 2005)
V0.41 (Jun 5th, 2005)
V0.40 (May 5th, 2005)
V0.30 (Feb 15th, 2005)
V0.20 (Nov 26th, 2004)
V0.10 (Apr 5th, 2004)
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The availability of new stations was only made possible by the outstanding work of Josef Drexler and Marcin Grzegorczyk on TTDPatch. In particular I'd like to express my gratitude to Josef for the fruitful collaboration during further developing TTDPatch.
For version 0.5, I'd like to thank alpha testers wallyweb and Raichase for their tireless bug-hunting, through a series of 20 alpha versions. Also, I'd like to thank ziond and Kraks for the Russian translation of NewStation's text strings, as well as Voyager One for the Croatian translation. In addition, the French version of this text was kindly created by wallyweb.